‘We are witnessing a moment where growing numbers of women and girls see death as preferable to living under the current circumstances,’ a UN official has been quoted as saying
Suicide, really. That’s the last thing you should try. You realize that suicide’s a criminal offense. In less enlightened times, they’d have hung you for it.
Latest: The Taliban have decreed that any woman caught attempting suicide will be put to death.
Correct me if I’m wrong but don’t some JudeoIslamic factions already punish suicide with death?
– Peter Cook, Bedazzled (1968)